Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun pl] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ought never to have kissed you or let things get to this stage , ’ Julia admitted . |
| 2 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 3 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 4 | Dickens also has this habit of making people out to be machines , or making objects become alive . |
| 5 | The district was determined to get action on long-standing problems , for example , reducing waiting times in certain specialities , or making clinicians travel to patients for outpatient clinics at a peripheral community hospital , rather than make patients travel to the DGH . |
| 6 | Has fertility changed mostly because successive cohorts each grow up with their own characteristic attitude to childbearing ( ‘ cohort ’ effects ) , or do families respond in a more opportunistic way to the economic and social opportunities or problems of the moment ( ‘ period ’ effects ) ? |
| 7 | Britain offered mediation , based on respect for Spanish sovereignty , in return for open markets and concessions to the rebels : since she would neither intervene against the rebels herself nor let others intervene should concession fail , her talk of Spanish sovereignty seemed hypocritical . |
| 8 | Nor do words like slag , nympho , ballbreaker and pricktease . |
| 9 | The auditors owe a duty of care to the shore share holders collectively , not to individual share holders or what are called stake holders , employees for example , er nor do auditors have a general duty so far as the public interest is concerned . |
| 10 | Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straightforward sense . |
| 11 | Nor did Puritans belong to any one socio-economic group . |
| 12 | Nor did things improve as he grew beyond subjection to state reproof . |
| 13 | Labour will work with industry to establish British Technology Enterprise and create Technology Trusts throughout Britain , building bridges between industries and universities and helping firms turn good ideas into commercial products . |
| 14 | The first step to developing a Christian philosophy of finance would be to commit ourselves to developing the character of Christ in our own lives and helping others do the same . |
| 15 | Waiting for programs to run , reports to print or in-house technical support to solve a problem accounted for $19 billion in lost productivity ; checking printed output a further $17 billion ; and helping others get to grips with applications another $16 billion . |
| 16 | That 's to say , as well as teaching and helping students learn , college teachers may also have some formal responsibility for student behaviour and discipline . |
| 17 | Most are run by women who have had friends or relatives in prison , and they do an excellent job of giving practical advice and helping wives deal with conflicting emotions . |
| 18 | Psychiatric social workers work with doctors , obtaining reports on the patients ' home situation and helping patients retain contact with the outside world . |
| 19 | ‘ These are competitors , salesmen , traders — they go out and make things happen . |
| 20 | Some simple toileting guidelines and reward charts as described above will also help break the vicious cycle and make parents feel able to act positively . |
| 21 | There was tremendous energy bottled up in there with nowhere to go , and somehow or other you were able to shoot that energy out through your eyes and make objects move . |
| 22 | I hope you will use the opportunity to get to know new people and make visitors feel welcome . |
| 23 | Abolish the present inheritance tax and make recipients pay on gifts above a certain band as income . |
| 24 | ‘ First of all we will look at his numerical and mathematical ability which he has gained from reckoning areas from odd shaped bits of land and working out the number of trees they will take , and from his mother 's shopping expeditions , and we will reduce these to simple symbolic formulas and tables and make children learn a lot of them very quickly . |
| 25 | Whereas greens and blues are cool and make flowers seem to recede , reds and yellows are warm colours that attract attention and stand forward from paler flowers . |
| 26 | The first set of strategies seeks to meet health needs and make ends meet within household income . |
| 27 | Farmers are normally too busy trying to run their dwindling holdings and make ends meet to be able to swan off to Butlin 's for a spot of pigeon-beheading . |
| 28 | They had lived in fear after hearing many noises and seeing objects fly across rooms . |
| 29 | ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work . |
| 30 | John Hayward was already assiduously collecting Eliot 's letters and drafts for inclusion in what he called the " Archives " and Virginia Woolf noted in her diary that he had acquired a certain kind of writer 's egotism and made remarks like , " Coleridge and I … " |